Lead Specialist, Software Engineer

To shape plan lead Portfolio delivery providing expert Engineering skill directing system capabilities priorities resources ensuring solutions are developedmaintained to standards practices. To synthesize mature Engineering Practices (Software -; Quality -; Change & Release; DEVOPS) across Portfolio delivery teams (5-12 teams).Lead manage resources: software - quality engineers technical system team (50-80 resources) building capacity capability competencies in Engineering team.

Qualifications :

Type of Qualification: Post Graduate Degree
Field of Study: Information Technology

Experience Required
Software Engineering
Technology
8-10 years
Proven ability to work effectively as both a team leader and as a member of a small team of technical staff working in an agile development environment. Track record in capability and competency building and coaching of staff is required. Minimum 3-5 years experience as a senior manager running a portfolio of 10 technical experts.

More than 10 years
Come from a background of full lifecycle design and development covering solution design application design development testing and maintenance network software operating systems multi-tier environments desktop and workgroup software middleware server technology fault tolerant environments development tools. Broad experience of application development methodologies data base methodology programming languages data base concepts and IT infrastructure and operations.

More than 10 years
Proven track record to a broad spectrum of stakeholders including senior executives. Knowledge of Agile and Lean frameworks methods and practices and experience in being a catalyst for organisational change. Experience working with cross-functional teams fostering collaboration and team work. Exposure to broad business and financial management type experience specifically within the banking sector. Good understanding of the Standard Bank IT environment

Additional Information :

Behavioural Competencies:

• Articulating Information
• Challenging Ideas
• Developing Expertise
• Developing Strategies
• Embracing Change
• Empowering Individuals
• Examining Information
• Exploring Possibilities
• Interpreting Data
• Making Decisions
• Showing Composure
• Team Working

Technical Competencies:

• Agile Engineering
• API Engineering
• Automation
• Cloud Computing
• Continuous Delivery (CD)
• Continuous Deployment
• Continuous Integration (CI)
• Core Systems
• Data Engineering
• Design Thinking
• Error Budgets
• Incident Response
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Knowledge Management
• Microservices
• Non-abstract Large System Design (NALSD)
• Observability (Application and Web Analytics)
• Platform Engineering
• Policy as Code
• Post-incidence Analysis
• Reliability and Resilience
• Security Engineering
• Service Level Management
• Software Engineering Methods
• Software Engineering Tools
• Software Foundations
• System Integration
• Test-driven Design (TDD)
• Threat Modelling

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time